Carnegie Hall announced its 2018-19 season featuring some of the world’s greatest singers and musicians. To stick with opera, we will only be highlighting the singers who will be featured in the season.

Orchestras

Mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot will be featured with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique under the direction of Sir John Eliot Gardiner in an all-Berlioz program. The program will feature selections from “Les Troyens.”

Performance Date:Oct. 14, 2018

Tenor Michael Spyres joins Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique for all-Berlioz program. He will be featured in Lélio and the program will also include the Symphonie fantastique.

Performance Date:Oct. 15, 2018

Christiane Karg and Elisabeth Kulman perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” with the Czech Philharmonic under the direction of Semyon Bychov. The Prague Philharmonic Choir will also be featured in the concert.

Performance Date:Oct. 28, 2018

Joyce DiDonato joins the Philadelphia Orchestra alongside Yannick Nézet-Séguin in a program that includes Wagner’s Prelude to “Lohengrin,” the New York Premiere of Mason Bate’s Anthology of Fantastic Zoology, Chausson’s “Poème de l’ amour et de la mer,” and Respighi’s “Fountains of Rome.”

Performance Date:Nov. 13, 2018

Renée Fleming joins the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons in all Strauss program featuring the Sextet, Moonlight Music, and Final Scene from “Capriccio.” It will also feature “Also sprach Zarathustra.”

Harry Bicket continues his tradition leading the English Concert in a concert performance of a Handel work. This year Handel’s “Semele” will be the elected work. The cast includes Brenda Rae (Semele), Elizabeth DeShong (Juno/Ino), Soloman Howard (Cadmus/Somnus), Benjamin Hulett (Jupiter), Christopher Lowrey (Athamas) and
Ailish Tynan (Iris).

Performance Date: April 14, 2019

Lydia Teuscher, Iestyn Davies, Robin Tritschler, and Matthew Brook will be featured in Bach’s Mass in B Minor under the direction of Bernard Labadie and Les Violons du Roy.

Other recitals will include Paul Appleby on Oct. 26, 2018, Matthew Polenzani on Feb. 24, 2019,Iestyn Davies on May 16, 2019. Leah Crocetto will also be featured in recital on Nov. 08, 2018 as well as J’Nai Bridges on Dec. 13, 2018, andSabine Devieilhe on Jan. 17, 2019. Joélle Harvey rounds out the vocal recitals on Feb. 13, 2019.

About the Author

FRANCISCO SALAZAR, (Publisher) worked as a reporter for Latin Post where he has had the privilege of interviewing numerous opera stars including Anita Rachvelshvili and Ailyn Perez. He also worked as an entertainment reporter where he covered the New York and Tribeca Film Festivals and interviewed many celebrities such as Antonio Banderas, Edgar Ramirez and Benedict Cumberbatch. He currently freelances for Remezcla.
He holds a Masters in Media Management from the New School and a Bachelor's in Film Production and Italian studies from Hofstra University.